Failure to address global warming will have us
all dead or eating each other by mid-century.

So says Ted Turner, the restaurateur, environmentalist
and former media mogul whose controversial comments have earned
him the nickname "Mouth of the South."

30 or 40 years and basically none of the crops
will grow," Turner said during a wide-ranging, hour-long interview
with PBS's Charlie Rose that aired Tuesday.

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"Most of the people will have died and the
rest of us will be cannibals," said Turner, 69. "Civilization
will have broken down. The few people left will be living in a failed
state — like Somalia or Sudan — and living conditions
will be intolerable."

One way to combat global warming, Turner said,
is to stabilize the population.

"We're too many people; that's why we have
global warming," he said. "Too many people are using too
much stuff."

Turner suggested that "on a voluntary basis,
everybody in the world's got to pledge to themselves that one or
two children is it."